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Think of HITECH compliance like a HIPAA upgrade. The HITECH Act came more than ten years after HIPAA in order to enforce tougher data security requirements mandated for all healthcare organizations as well as their business associates to follow. But what is the HITECH Act? What is HITECH compliance? And what software testing strategies should your team implement in order to uphold HITECH compliance?

QA testing professionals are in high demand across multiple industries, such as technology QA, healthcare software testing, retail software testing and financial domain testing. In addition to understanding QA principles applicable across all industries, each domain has industry-specific standards and guidelines necessary for every QA tester to fully master before executing test cases. And in financial services, this understanding is not just a nice-to-have skill - it’s crucial for the success of the business that testers support.

QA Managers are responsible for providing frequent and consistent communication for each member of their team. Celebrating the teamwork, treating team members with respect, and providing them with specific and actionable feedback are critical when trying to facilitate a productive environment. A productive environment can enhance the overall morale of a team and contributes to a healthy culture.

Telehealth software in the healthcare industry is now more relevant than ever. From small medical practices to large hospital networks, patients attending a medical appointment via telemedicine software is becoming just as common as an in-person visit to the doctor’s office. Has your organization adopted a remote healthcare platform? Without a strong telehealth software solution in place, your medical team may not be keeping up with industry expectations when crisis occur and is missing out on opportunities to provide the virtual clinical care many patients need.

You want to maximize efficiency within your development cycle so that your team produces quality product releases. You also need to maximize efficiency in order to stay competitive within your industry and to increase ROI month after month, year upon year. Many businesses have seen instant advantages after implementing automated testing into their development cycle. But what is automation QA testing? And what types of tests can be automated?

Healthcare applications must process a huge number of transactions and a massive amount of patient data each day. To ensure that all this data is handled appropriately over time, it is integral that test cases for the healthcare application apply data sets of varying complexity. To save time and resources, consider implementing test automation where possible. But what is test automation? And what benefits of automation in healthcare can your team expect?

An agile team that operates without continuous integration is like driving a race car in first gear. Your team can still make it to the finish line, but deploying to market will happen at a speed that works against best agile development methods and against your business goals. Continuous integration was made for agile lifecycles. What team doesn’t want to deploy smaller code changes and catch more defects earlier in the development process? What team wouldn’t benefit from reducing backlog, increasing transparency and launching stronger product quality? Continuous integration puts you back in the driver’s seat, and the leading CI tools accelerate how quickly error-free products move to the market.

The recent pandemic has led to a major lockdown across the globe. The IT industry is no exception - engineers are now working from home more than ever.

Most healthcare enterprise applications are loaded with critical data related to patients and the various organizations they serve. This can include health records, payment information, account details, and identity details. Due to the incredible sensitivity of this data, thorough software security testing is a necessity for healthcare applications so that critical information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. By “wrong hands,” we mean criminals in the identity theft business, hackers skilled in malware and phishing schemes, and cyber-attackers aiming to hold critical files or your entire system hostage by ransomware.